November 15, 2012

Because their
reputation is sullen in America and we are sick of this “Greedy Bunch”, the
Jackson Family often take their exploitations of Michael Jackson overseas. Since
Michael’s death, the so-called Family’s so-called tributes have been
non-stop.

Jermaine
Jackson’s latest feast on Michael’s corpse comes as “a musical comedy”, adapted
from his book titled "You Are Not Alone." The Shows will take place
in Paris on January 21, 27 and 28, 2013. Jermaine will perform songs alongside
David Serero.

While promoting
his musical and new jazz album in Paris, Jermaine dissed Michael Jackson’s Cirque Du
Soleil Shows……… that he had previously lauded.

Jermaine Jackson
was in Paris to promote his show on the life of King of Pop.

He criticizes
other competitor shows.

Jermaine Jackson and french opera singer David Serero

Jeans, sweater
and sunglasses, he welcomes us into his suite at the Fouquet's where heating is
pushed to its maximum ("Jermaine hates the cold," explains his
entourage). The fourth son of the Jackson siblings visits Paris to promote
"You are not Alone", which will be played at the Variety Theatre on
January 21, 27 and 28th.The musical was
adapted from his published book in which he traced the life of his brother. The
show will combine anecdotes and Family films which will be performed onstage by
Jermaine and opera singer David Serero.

Q: So what will
the show be like?

JERMAINE
JACKSON: We want to explain the relationship Michael had with his family. They
write a lot about us but now we are telling the truth. And we want to deliver
the best vocal performance.

Q: There are a
lot of shows dedicated to your brother since his death. What do you think of them?

JERMAINE
JACKSON: I saw "Thriller Live" here in Paris and I loved it. But
there are other shows that are not up to it, including the Cirque du Soleil. It’s
not the Family who is behind these shows; it is the executors of Michael’s
Estate. We didn’t have any say on these shows. We are against these shows.
Michael would never have approved these shows. His legacy should be in the
right hands.

Q: This summer,
the media reported that there were major tensions in the Jackson family ...

JERMAINE
JACKSON: People outside of the family want the family to be divided.

Q: There are a
lot of questions about your brother’s death. Do you hope to discover the whole
truth one day?

JERMAINE
JACKSON: We still have lots of questions; we will never know the truth..

Q: You recently
filed an application with the U.S. administration to take the pseudonym
"Jacksun." Why?

JERMAINE
JACKSON: *Sighs* I went to see a lawyer in a tiny little office and I filled
out a form . Jacksun is a reference to the sun. Because I love being in the sun
- Michael loved it too. But in my business, I am keeping the name of Jackson.

As usual,
Jermaine assumes the Family spokesperson role, stating that the Family
is against Michael Jackson’s Cirque Du Soleil Show and that they had no say on
the production. As usual, Jermaine's statements are contradictory to his previous
statements and conflicting with the facts.

Jermaine had
PRAISED Michael Jackson’s Cirque De Soleil Show after attending it in Nov 2011.

“I
thought the show was great. I thought it was very exciting. The production was
wonderful. They did a great job. The crowd loved it. Great production and it is
gonna do very well. I was all up in it. “

- JERMAINE
JACKSON

Jermaine claims
the Family had no say in the Cirque De Soleil Shows. I am guessing he means HE
had no say in the production. Jackie Jackson was very
much involved.

Q: How involved
were you with the Immortal production?

JACKIE
JACKSON: From the very beginning, I was there helping them put things
together. They brought me down before the show came out and they did a whole
run through for me. I was with the whole team. I was so happy to help them and
they were so excited to meet me.

Michael
Jackson’s Children, Paris, Prince and Blanket attended the Cirque du Soleil in
Montreal in October 2011, in Las Vegas in December 2011 and in Los Angeles in January 2012. The children also attended the Immortal Tour promotional events -
Dancing With the Stars Michael Jackson Tribute Night and hand & foot
Imprint Ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

“I was looking
for something amazing. I found something far better. I really enjoyed it. It
captured Michael very well. It was very very good, done very very well.”

– Katherine Jackson

“It was amazing.
All of the acts are just completely amazing. It bought tears to my eyes. He would have been proud and he would have loved to be here to see
it.”

– Paris Michael Jackson

“I think he’d be
very proud that they made a show out of his legacy.”

– Prince Michael Jackson,
Jr

Michael
Jackson’s Cirque Du Soleil shows garner acclaims from around the globe as well
as from the Jacksons whose opinions matter. When Michael
was alive, too, Jermaine used to interject himself into Michael Jackson’s life,
trying to steal an ounce of Michael’s dazzling light onto his irrelevant self
to promote whatever lackluster crap he is promoting at the time. Some things never change.

THIS is why
Jermaine was excluded from Michael's life when the Gloved One was alive
and THIS is why Michael’s Estate wants nothing to do with this sour-grapes
loser.

October 17, 2012

I'm completely positive that not only
Jermaine wasn’t actively involved in the writing of this book but also
he didn’t even bother proof reading. Instead, he directed it to be rushed
to print so it could debut right before the Conrad Murray Trial, capitalizing from the media frenzy as free publicity. Jermaine Jackson has
always had a knack for turning Michael Jackson’s lemons into his lemonade!

Jermaine's ghost writer insisting that Jermaine read this book thoroughly

"Jermaine" wrote that he decided to write this
book in January 2011. The book made its debut in September 2011. That is 8 months, y'all. In comparison, Michael Jackson’s autobiography took 4 years. But then
again, quality was an important factor for Michael who didn't short-change his
fans. Jermaine, on the other hand, isn’t big on quality. All he cares is about
is the money he can make without having earned it. What does he care, it
isn’t his fans, it is Michael’s fans! It isn’t his fault that MJ’s
sucker fans are willing to pay anything with Michael Jackson name on it. Have a ghost writer plagiarize from various resources, affix your name as the author, put
Michael on the cover and ka-ching!

Judge
The Book By Its Cover

Michael Jackson autobiography, titled
“Moonwalk” debuted in 1988. It was ghost-written by Stephen Davis and edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Michael was heavily involved. It took 4 years for the book to come to fruition. The music titan ever self conscious of over-exposing himself gives the readers just
enough about his personal life while focusing primarily on his art.

Janet Jackson autobiography, titled “True You” debuted in 2011. Notice that the cover is a picture of her—Janet is a esteemed artist in her own right. She doesn’t need Michael Jackson to boost her book sales. Janet shares her struggles with weigh loss and “depression” and reaches out to people who are going through the same struggles. She writes a book to use her celebrity to inspire people—not to exploit her little brother. Don’t turn to this book for gossip about Janet and the Jackson Family—especially Michael Jackson—there is none.

Latoya Jackson autobiography, titled “Starting Over” debuted in 2011. The cover portends its content—while Latoya does exploit her little brother, she has plenty to write about her own life. Latoya is on a crusade to lend her…ahem…celebrity…for spreading awareness about the abuse she claims she endured in the hands of her former husband. Lest we forget that her first autobiography titled “Growing up in the Jackson Family” carried the same mission—but then, she was commiserating about the abuse she endured in the hands of her father, Joe, only to rescind those claims in this book. Stay tuned for her third biography in which she’ll probably blame Jeffree Phillips for her failures.

Jermaine Jackson’s "autobiography" is titled “You Are Not Alone Michael”, debuted in 2011. Although the back cover classified it as an autobiography, this book all about Michael Jackson.

Jermaine is someone who just happened to grow up under the same roof as the musical genius Michael Jackson. And boy, did he milk that for what's worth. Michael and Jermaine didn't have a close brotherly bond. It’s safe to say that his knowledge of Michael is less than that of avid Michael Jackson fans.You’d think that Jermaine would proof-read this book which was researched and written entirely by a ghost writer [Steve Dennis]—at least out of curiosity. But Jermaine didn't bother. End result is an "autobiography" replete with inaccuracies such as spellings of his mom & brother's names and even his own birthday. There were numerous small factual errors that, in totality, add up to confirm that this book is the product of Steve Dennis' poor research skills [of which fans of Britney Spears also complain on amazon about a book he wrote.]

Only if you haven’t read other books written about Michael Jackson, will you be impressed with Jermaine Jackson’s book, believing that it's authentic. I will give several examples of plagiarism but to list them all would be tedious. Almost everything—I’d impartially say that perhaps %94 of this book comes from other books, Michael Jackson interviews and Internet sources (articles, news, blogs, videos etc).

The following are some
of my notes while reading Jermaine Jackson's book:

The inspirational
note that Michael Jackson allegedly wrote on his bathroom mirror isn’t the same on above two pages.

Prologue xii“November 2003—when he was arrested and charged”

Michael Jackson was arrested without formal charges. Yes, upon Tom Sneddon announcing that there is a warrant for his arrest, Mr. Jackson turned himself in on November 20, 2003 but he wasn’t charged until December 18, 2003

“There is a warrant outstanding and I can assure you that within a very short period of time, there will be charges filed against Mr. Jackson”~Tom Sneddon, Nov 19, 2003

Prologue xii“Yesterday, March 9, Gavin Arvizo began his
testimony…I watch the local news on TV, looking ahead to the Day
11 of the trial.”

March 10, 2005 was Day 9 of the trial — not Day 11Prologue xvi“There
is not one shred of evidence to justify this trial. This irrefutable truth
would be confirmed by an FBI statement in 2009, making it clear after my
brother’s death that there was never any evidence to support any allegation in
16 years of investigation.”

When you regurgitate info from the media without fact-checking, you run into the caveat of repeating misinformation. The misinfo that was published by various media outlets was that Michael was monitored by FBI for 16 years.

FBI didn't monitor Mr. Jackson 16 years. FBI assisted the investigation by California law enforcement between 1993-1994 and 2004-2005. That's 2 years in regards to the molestation allegations [not 16 yrs].

(FBI files on Michael Jackson)FBI did investigate various death threats made against Michael Jackson between 1992 and 2005. These investigations were to HELP Michael Jackson [not to monitor him for child molestation charges]. Prologue xvii “He looks like a white man splashed with coffee. This is the skin
condition – the vitiligo— that a cynical world says he doesn’t have, preferring
to believe that he bleaches his skin.”

Says the man who wrote Word to the Badd
[Michael Jackson diss]

Once you were made

You changed your
shade

Was your color wrong?”

Later in the book on Page 164, Jermaine further inflames the “cynical world”. He starts
his anecdote with this ridiculous disclaimer:

“As I write this I am fully aware of
this one fact – if taken out of context— is danger of fanning the myth that
Michael bleached his skin.

Jermaine recounts that Michael used Nadinola
before he was ever diagnosed with Vitiligo. During his teenage years, Michael
had acne problems which troubled him a great deal. Jermaine explains that
Michael used Nadinola to fade scar marks because “for black kids, squeezing and
picking [on pimples] leaves a mark darker than the natural skin color.”
Although the product is marketed as “skin discoloration fade cream”, Jermaine
calls it “a skin bleaching cream.”

Jermaine also posted a half-page, glossed picture of Michael with acne. And he made sure that it is in black and white so the acne is more visible. How many pictures do you think Jermaine posted depicting Michael's golden, charitable heart?

ZERO.

When I see this picture, I see beauty but I know that Michael was sensitive about his acne - his feelings matter, yes, even after death. If Michael was my brother, I wouldn't go around highlighting a subject that I know he was sensitive about. This anecdote and the picture is the sensationalized garbage Michael talked about. This so-called tribute memoir reads like a tabloid garbage Michael warned us about.His pimple-bursting ritual doesn’t add any
value to a tribute memoir when the man left behind plenty of material to be documented for the new generations. Reading
this silly anecdote, Michael’s words from his Oprah interview comes to mind:

“Do you know what’s so funny? Why is that so important? That’s
not important to me. I’m a great fan of art. I love Michelangelo. If I get a
chance to talk to him or read about him, I’d wanna know the anatomy of his craftsmanship — not about who he went out
with last nite or why he decided to sit out in the sun so long, what’s wrong
with him.”~ Michael Jackson

Prologue xviii“There is no way my brother is going to jail for this.

He wouldn’t
survive”

This is the same thing Jermaine was prepared
to write in his book titled 'Legacy: Surviving the Best and the Worst’. Back then Jermaine intended to exploit
his little brother by bashing him but since after Michael’s death,
praising him became the fashionable and profitable thing to do, Jermaine dumped
the disparaging remarks. But his belief that Michael wouldn’t survive
prison remained in this book.

The following is an excerpt from Jermaine’s
first book that didn’t see the daylight because Michael found out about
it & put an end to it.

“My
brother doesn’t always learn the valuable lessons life teaches. He is stubborn,
hard-headed and, at times, harsh. He is cold, calculating and devious. The
blood of his father runs freely through him. We were all afraid that the blood
of Joseph Jackson would eventually contaminate all of us. But this is still my
family and I love every one of them and I won’t sit by and let my brother go to
prison. Prison would kill him. I’ve thought about doing the time for him, if
he’s convicted. Michael wouldn’t survive in prison for one day. He’d commit
suicide.”

Prologue xix“Lies run in sprints but the truth runs in marathons and the truth
will win. The truest lyric he never sang.”&

Page 376 “Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons. The truth will
run this marathon in court”.

Michael Jackson’s quote is used twice in this
book—BOTH times different versions from each other and BOTH times inaccurately
quoted. Also, the ghost writer erroneously wrote that it is a lyric — it isn’t. It is from the following statement, released on Nov 20, 2003—the day Mr. Jackson turned himself in.

Stuart Backerman, a spokesman for Michael
Jackson, issued the following statement on behalf of the singer:

The big lie against Michael Jackson is
anchored in the most vicious allegation imaginable, one that resonates across
every culture: the spectacle of harming a child. That spectacle invites
outrage, and it should. But this spectacle is rooted in a lie.

Michael said "Lies run sprints, but the
truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court." (source)

Page 8 “Neverland has been portrayed as the outlandish creation of ‘a
wild imagination’ with the suggestion that a love of Disney was its sole
inspiration.”

As I mentioned in Part 1 of my review, the
ghost writer’s use of quotation marks were rather confusing, considering that
there wasn’t

a single source-quote in this book. Unless you are an avid reader on Michael Jackson, you can only wonder the source of a quote.

Randy Taraborrelli wrote: “Neverland Ranch was
one of Michael Jackson’s greatest creations, the result of his imagination gone
wild.” However he didn’t suggest that Disney was Michael’s inspiration. That
came from Tom Mesereau who said “Neverland is not a haven for criminal activity
as characterized by the prosecution. It's a Disneyland-like place for
underprivileged and sick children to have a day of fun."

Page 12 “She was born Katie Scruse in May 1930”

She was born as Kattie Screws [named after her
aunt.] After Martha—Kattie’s mom—got divorced, she changed Kattie’s name to Katherine
Esther Scruse in 1934.

Page 12 “Her grandparents had been cotton farmers and her
great-grandfather was a slave to an Alabama
family called Scruse.”

The last name of the Alabama family who owned Katherine’s
great-grandfather [Kendall Brown] was Screws—not Scruse. As mentioned above, Katherine mom
changed Screws to Scruse in 1934 because it sounded similar but it was less
suggestive.

Page 13 “When our parents met in 1949…”

Katherine and Joe met in 1948. The ghost writer
unwittingly confirms this on Page 20 “On one date with Joseph as a 19
year old, they were at a dance floor at some party.” Joe was 19 year old in
1948.

Katherine & Joe married in Nov 1949. Rebbie was born on May 1950. Do the math. They had to get married because Katherine was pregnant.

Page 17 “Whenever Mother was out and we brothers fought, we swore her
[Latoya] into a pack. ‘Promise you won’t tell.’ ‘Promise’ she said
convincingly. ‘I won’t tell.’ As soon as Mother was through the door, the
promise was undone with a dramatic confession. ‘Mother, Jermaine’s been
fighting.’ It didn’t even matter if she made stuff up.”

In her book, Katherine Jackson includes
narratives by her children (except Michael). Compare Jermaine’s above excerpt
with following excerpt from Katherine’s book, especially Jackie’s.

“KATHERINE: Jermaine was the tattletale.

JACKIE: If we’d done something we didn’t
want Dad to know about, we’d give Jermaine a cookie and make him promise not to
tell. And he’d say “I promise.” But as soon as my father walked in the door,
he’d go “Dad” and spill the beans anyway. Sometimes he’d even make up things.” (source)

Page 20“As a two year old, she [Katherine] had polio. She had worn a wooden
splint until she was ten.”

Katherine wrote in her book “I contracted it [polio] at the age of one and
a half. I had to wear a brace on my leg for seven
years.”

Page 21“It took one spring and one summer
for their romance to turn into marriage. Mother was on the street and Joseph
was inside, sitting near his front window, when she rode by on a bicycle. They
noticed each other. He plucked up the nerve to introduce himself. That led to a
date at the movies and then the party with the dance floor. Katie Scruse fell
in love with Joseph Jackson. They were wed in November 1949.”The earlier years of Katherine and Joe in
Jermaine’s book comes from Katherine and Joe’s books—only Jermaine’s ghost
writer paraphrased some but omitted some conveniently.

Katherine and Joe’s history is less than the
love at first sight “romance” in this book. You see, Katherine and Joseph dated for awhile but to Katherine’s dismay, Joe got married to another girl named Josephine.
The couple moved in with her parents but they constantly fought because Joe
couldn’t keep it in his pants—although in his book he deceptively wrote that it
was Josephine with the fidelity issues. After 10 months of
marriage, Joe and Josephine got divorced. I believe that Katherine and Joe
had an affair while he was married. I also believe that they had to get
married (because Katherine was pregnant with Reebie). Here’s their history as told in their books.

“One day I sat near the window and suddenly
I saw a gorgeous girl with wonderfully beautiful features on the other side of
the street, she went on a bicycle along the sidewalk. Her skin was
yellowish-brown like the most sweet honey, she was the most beautiful shade I had
ever seen. She reached to the end of street, stopped and rode back. When she
passed by my house, she lifted her eyes and looked at me. She stopped at the
end of the street again and she passed by again. She stopped her bike precisely
in front of my house, on other side of the street. ‘Hi’ I shouted. She actually
crossed the street to talk to me. I asked her name and where she lives. Her
name was Katherine Scruse.” ~Joe

“My
shyness as a child didn’t extend to boys. Together with Hattie {Katherine’s
sister] and a few girlfriends, we founded a club in high school called the Blue
Flames. Once every month or two, we’d hold a blue-light party in somebody’s
home and invite our friends over to dance. With the twenty-five-cent admission
we charged, we were able to save enough money to buy ourselves a nice gift at
Christmas.

I had already set my sights on the kind of
man I wanted to marry: I wanted him to be a saxophone player. I thought
saxophone players were sexy. It was at a house party when I first laid my eyes
on Joe Jackson. I didn’t dance with him that night but when I saw him at
another blue-light party, he noticed me and we danced a lot. I couldn’t do fast
dancing because of my leg, so we danced to the slower songs.” ~Katherine

“Around midnight I took Kate home and led
her to the front door. She stood there and looked at me like she thought I
will come in with her.

‘Forgive me but I have to go’ she said.

‘Ok
call me in the morning’ I said.

Finally the morning came. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the phone rang.
It was Kate, she asked if I slept.

‘I
could not fall asleep’ I said.

‘Joe,
I too could not fall asleep’

‘Why?’

‘I
keep thinking of the party and how we danced. I simply laid in bed and thought
of it. I even wrote a letter to you’ she said.

‘But
you live in the next street, we can meet and talk’ I said.

‘I
wrote what I can’t say to you’

‘So
where is the letter?’

‘I
will bring it to you and I will put it on the porch’

‘Okay’

I
stood on the stairs before the front door when Katherine rode on the bicycle
and gave me the letter. I opened the envelope. Katherine wrote me she loved me.
And she confessed that there is another guy she likes. Since she mentioned his
name, I asked around about him. I was told that he knows her from school, they
were holding hands, kissing and hugging. They had been together for five years. She
came to me after awhile and said: ‘we broke up. I told him that I love you.”
~Joe

Joe married Josephine AFTER he dated Katherine
who tries to save face in her book, claiming that Joe got married because he
didn’t know that Katherine liked him.

“I don’t think he knew that I had a crush on
him, I didn’t tell him. Nowadays, it seems, girls often make the first move. I
can’t believe how aggressive many young girls are today. But back then, no
matter how much a girl liked a boy, she wouldn’t let him know. It wasn’t
considered ladylike. Soon afterward, Joe married another girl, much to my
disappointment. But their marriage lasted less than a year.” ~Katherine

Katherine wasn’t truthful in her above remarks. She wasn’t shy about
boys, she wrote so in her book [excerpt above. “My shyness as a child didn’t
extend to boys.”] and she did aggressively pursued Joe. They dated for awhile but
Joe was also involved with Josephine and he chose to marry her.

“I wanted to marry, there was one young lady
with whom I had been in love, at least so I thought. Josephine and I married
but unfortunately she was not loyal to me and we constantly argued because of that.” ~Joe

I believe that Katherine and Joe
continued seeing each other even though Joe was married. Then Katherine got pregnant with Rebbie. Joe
had to get divorced from Josephine and marry Katherine.

The article claimed that the burial was delayed for three
months due to financial wrangling between Janet Jackson and the Michael Jackson
Estate.

Sullivan claims "Janet put up the $40,000
deposit at Forest Lawn to secure a spot for Michael but refused to let the
funeral take place until the money was repaid.”

This claim is baseless and totally false.

To secure a spot for Michael Jackson, the Jackson Family
signed an initial contract with Forest Lawn on July 4, 2009 for basic funeral
services for $103, 578. This included a $5000 a month charge for invaultment (to store Michael Jackson's body in a temporary vault). As per the contract, $49,372.50 advance toward the expenses had to be paid on July 6th and the
remaining balance of $54,206 to be paid before the burial. Janet Jackson paid the advance of $49,372.50

This, however, didn’t mean that Mr. Jackson would indeed
be laid to rest at Forest Lawn. The contract was just to secure a spot. As evidenced by the invaultment arrangement, the Jackson Family was still considering alternatives as the final resting place for the Gloved One. The reason that the burial
was delayed for 3 months was the dissent among the Jackson Family members
over a proper burial place. Neverland, Forest Lawn, Las
Vegas and Garry, Indiana
were among the Family's considerations.

Michael Jackson's Tomb

When the Family finally settled on the Forest Lawn, they then amended the initial Forest Lawn Contract, purchasing a tomb at the Great Mausoleum aka Fort Knox of Forest Lawn. The new funeral package incurred an additional $855,730.31 to the expenses. $590,000 of this was just for the tomb. Additionally, the Jackson family rented Villa Sorriso for a funeral repast (invitation-only family gathering after the burial) for $21,455

Janet's reimbursement was never an issue in Michael Jackson’s burial as Randall Sullivan claims. In fact, payment was no issue at all on any front. Randy Jackson, on behalf of the Jacksons Family, didn’t even approach the Estate for payment till August 29, 2009. This is the very date when the Jacksons learnt that neither the Forest Lawn nor the Glendale Police Department will proceed rendering their services without full payment.

Michael Jackson Estate was fully supportive of Michael Jackson getting a befitting send-off but because the Estate was under probate and such decision needed the approval of the probate judge, the Estate couldn’t just write a check. On Saturday August 29, 2009, The Estate advised Katherine’s attorney Burt Levitch to seek an immediate ex parte asking the judge to authorize the Estate to make the payment.

From: Paul Gordon Hoffman

Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 8:53 AM

To: Levitch, Burt

Cc: John Branca; John MCClain; Howard Weitzman

Subject: Funeral Expenses

Attachments: Funeral Estimate.pdf

Burt:

The Special Administrators and their
counsel were contacted by Michael Kane, who was contacted by Randy Jackson who was seeking the guarantee of the Special Administrators that the
funeral bills and related security costs would be paid out of the Estate.

As you know, the decisions regarding
Michael Jackson's funeral are entirely those of Katherine Jackson, and the
Special Administrators have no role in it. However, it appears that Mrs.
Jackson and Randy Jackson may be under the erroneous impression that the
Special Administrators can advance funds or guarantee reimbursement of costs
for the funeral. Of course, the Special Administrators can do neither.

You may wish to consider seeking
immediate ex parte approval of the court for payment of the expenses in advance
of the final arrangements. The Special Administrators will waive the customary
24 hours notice if you choose to move on this matter on Monday morning. The
Special Administrators are certainly supportive of the Mrs. Jackson's desire to
have a funeral commensurate with Michael Jackson's status as perhaps the
greatest entertainer who ever lived. However, on this matter, we must turn to
you to represent your clients before the court, and trust that you will have
your clients understand that the amount that the court will authorize for
reimbursement is entirely in the hands of Judge Beckloff.

Paul

On Monday August 31, 2009 Katherine’s attorney Burt Levitch informed
the Estate that he was going to appear at court on September 1, 2009

From: BurtLevitch

Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:06 PM

To: Paul Gordon Hoffman; Howard Weitzman

Subject: Estate of Michael Joseph Jackson --
Ex Parte Notice

Please be advised that, on behalf of
Katherine Esther Jackson, I plan to appear ex parte in Room 258, Los Angeles Superior Court, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, California90012, at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, to seek an order
for immediate payment from the Estate of the decedent's funeral expenses.

Should you have questions prior to
the appearance, please let me know.

Burt

Katherine Jackson's "Ex Parte Application for an order authorizing the immediate payment of funeral expenses from the Estate" dated Sep 1, 2009 stated:

"Mrs. Jackson seeks an order granting the Special
Administrators the authority to make immediate payment for the funeral
expenses. Prompt action is necessary to facilitate the burial of the Decedent
as scheduled on September 3, 2009. Forest Lawn requires payment in full before it will file for the requisite
burial permit which needs to be issued in advance of the planned burial.

Only as recently as August 29, 2009 did Mrs. Jackson learn that both Forest Lawn and Glendale Police Department will not provide their services without receiving
payment prior to rendering those services.

Mrs. Jackson requests that the court authorize the Special Administrators
to pay the outstanding balance to the Forest Lawn and reimburse the
family member who paid the initial installment on the contract for the funeral
services.”

Judge Mitchell Beckloff swiftly approved all the funeral expenses asked by Katherine Jackson which is approximately $1 million. The funeral expenses were paid before the burial on Sep 3, 2009. The Estate reimbursed Janet in 2010.

At no point did the Estate or Janet Jackson make an
issue of payment for the funeral expenses. Randall Sullivan’s claim that Janet Jackson or the Estate
delayed Michael Jackson’s burial is absolutely
false.

Janet Jackson's attorney, Blair Brown sent the following letter to Vanity Fair, demanding a retraction of the false story on its website and in its November issue.

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October 5, 2012

Graydon Carter

Editor-in-Chief, Vanity Fair

Re: Retraction of Statements relating to Janet Jackson

Dear Mr. Carter:

I represent Janet Jackson. By this letter, I inform you that
an article regarding my client that first appeared on Vanity Fair’s website on
October 4, 2012 entitled “Michael Jackson’s Burial Was Delayed Because Janet
Wanted Her Burial-Plot Deposit Back” is false and defamatory. This article, as
well as the excepts from Randall Sullivan’s upcoming book, Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson,
which were published in Vanity Fair’s November 2012 issue makes statements about Ms. Jackson that have no basis in fact
and are highly damaging to Ms. Jackson’s reputation.

The article states that, according to Untouchable, Ms
Jackson put down a $40,000 deposit to secure a burial plot for Michael Jackson
but refused to let the funeral take place until that money was repaid. This is
untrue. Ms. Jackson never delayed the funeral in any way. In fact, she paid for
the funeral and was reimbursed for some of those expenses by Michael Jackson’s
estate in the year after the services took place. In addition, there were other
private costs associated with Michael Jackson’s passing that Ms. Jackson
incurred and for which she has never sought reimbursement. To false accuse Ms. Jackson
of holding up her brother’s funeral over money is outrageous. This story is
particularly hurtful and distressing because of Ms. Jackson’s strong desire to
serve her brother, whom she loved dearly, and her wish to stand with and
support her family.

Moreover, this false and defamatory statement has been
published by numerous other media outlets around the world including the New
York Daily News and the UK-based Daily Mail Online and Huffington Post, among
many others, exacerbating the damage to Ms. Jackson’s reputation.

I demand that Vanity Fair retract its statement that Ms.
Jackson “refused” to let Michael Jackson’s funeral to take place until the
money she put down as a deposit on his burial plot was repaid. To the extend
that this statement appears in the excerpts of Untouchable published in Vanity Fair’s November 2012 issue, I
demand that Vanity Fair publish a retraction explaining that the statement is
false. I also demand that Vanity Fair contact all other media and websites that
have re-published Vanity Fair’s false statement and inform them of its
retraction and its corrective statement.